Yao Zhang @ NWPU

Yao Zhang 

Welcome! I am an associate professor in the School of Computer Science @ Northwestern Polytechnic University. Our lab is directed by Prof. Zhiwen Yu and Prof. Bin Guo.

I received my Ph.D. degree from the School of Telecommunications Engineering @ Xidian University. I was a postdoc fellow in the EIE department @ PolyU and the School of Computer Science @ NWPU.

Research Interests

  • Foundations: Human-AI Computing, Integrated AI and Network (CrowdNet), Scaling Law.

  • Applications: Vehicular Networks, Drones, Human-Machine Collaboration.

What's New

  • 4 papers was submitted to IJCAI’26, 1 paper was submitted to ICML’26.

  • [2026.03], Our paper “Detecting Fake Reviewer Groups in Dynamic Networks: An Adaptive Graph Learning Method” was accepted by IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering.

  • [2026.02], Our paper “Adaptive Sampling for Continuous Crowdsensing in Unknown Dynamics Environments” was accepted by IEEEACM Transactions on Networking/.

  • [2025.11], Our paper “VIL2C: Value-of-Information aware Low-latency Communication for Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning” was accepted by AAAI.

Contact

Email: yaozh.g@nwpu.edu.cn